Suggestions please! Good for range of abilities and interests if possible. Looking to put together a top 5 suggested reading list.
āLord of the Fliesā is an all-time junior high classic.
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When I was in jr. High, everyone was reading Alex Rider books. I think they made them into a show on Amazon (??) now. Golden Compass was popular too (another book series now on streaming)
Thereās always Harry Potter, the Hobbit, and Narnia to fall back onā¦
Hatchet by Gary Paulsen. It had a lot of my students read more than assigned and was generally well received.
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didnāt we do this last year?
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For the sake of my poor mother learning that most of what my siblings and I read in middle school was not āage appropriateā, Neil Gaiman has written a lot of books, many great for children, but American Gods is not appropriate for middle schoolers (my mom has recently realized)
Phoenix Rising by Karen Hessy
The Giver
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (heavy topics) by Betty Smith
Shadow Children
Enders game
the first season was great. the book was OK
Middle School in western countries or Taiwanese middle school?
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My students here say burnt bread, doraemon, and CSI.
Good call. I thought it seemed really familiar. Actually, I thought it was the old thread bumped.
Maybe the giver for the advanced students? Also anything by Roald Dahl is pretty timeless
The Breadwinner.
Just did a quick check to see if thisād be a repost, and yup, itās from you!, but linking here anyway:
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It certainly is. However, will it fly in the present climate?
I donāt care. āIf anyone has a problem with this classic example from the Western canon, Iām calling the conch shell on themā (is what Iād say if I were teaching it)
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Opus Pistorum.
SCNR, Iāll see myself outā¦
My problem with that book is that there was a āreal worldā case of Lord of the Flies ā a group of school boys ended up shipwrecked on an island somewhere in the South Pacific. When they were found over a year later (by chance), the people that found them saw a community of boys living their lives as if it was normal ā theyād put together a kitchen, had a weight lifting area, and they had an established rule that if they got into fights, they were to go to opposite ends of the island to chill out before rejoining the group. So the only ācase studyā literally runs completely contrary to story told in the book. Itās like some people want the world to burn when the reality is that humans try to do the right thing most of the time. Learning about the ārealā story actually made me hate my lit teacher for shoving those tropes down our throats.
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Hereās an article about it for those interested - The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months | Society books | The Guardian
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What?
Anyway, I preferred The Spire until I found it was based on a real building.